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great i hope they enfore this law as smoking is a dirty stinking habit with no respect for others who dont smoke who sit near to them and have to inhale their crap.

id just like to add that incapacity benefit is one thing she can have without it affecting her visa even on a 2 yr settlement at first.

ive searched around and on internet but cant find a phone number or contact for buying in fertilizer in bulk.....any help would be much appreciated.

I don't know where you are in LOS, but around the Hua-Hin area, or any area where there is farming going on you must be able to find lots of stores that stock the fertilisers. We have numerous stores where fertilisers constitute 95% of their entire stock. What kind of quantitites are you looking for? I buy lawn/plant fertilisers in 50kg bags, that cost from 600 - 900B per 50kg.

we just want a phone number of someone who can supply us with urea and 16.16.8 primarily and around 50tonnes a week .

ive searched around and on internet but cant find a phone number or contact for buying in fertilizer in bulk.....any help would be much appreciated.

stoneman how many trees did u get planted to the rai?

It seems quite natural that some Thais working in the sleaze pit of Thailand, after supressing so much anger at having to put up with incorrigible, decadent, mindless, violent - the list goes, i've been there a few times - foreigners will vent their ill feeling towards tourists when they have a chance, i.e. when they don't throw the first stone and so won't lose face.

It's easily discernible in some places, the resentment towards foreigners. Maybe if you worked in a bar - was paid peanuts - in your own country and had to put up with richer, drunker, taller foreigners with filthy mouths and hardly any respect for your culture and traditions, you might also wait for the day to give them a right kicking. I'm not accusing the Estonians of anything, just making a point that Pattaya does attract many people like this and so certain Thais are waiting for a chance to get back.

What happened is terrible . . . but sadly, it is understandable. It happnes more often than ever up here (CM) and it will keep happening. The only places i go where the old Thai smile is real is 'baan nork' . . . where we have yet to mess up, stain and tempt with gold coins. We are like a disease to them at times . . . globalisation is not welcome either, no one wants to change, but still, it won't stop happening . . . and they know they need our money, because they have come to rely on it . . . and need our western luxuries . . . they too are greedy and so like an addiction, they need us . . .but ideally - as a whole, not as singulars - we are hardly welcome by the majority, an addiction is usually not ideal . . . if it weren't for our money, we wouldnt be welcome, look at the visa stipulations, we are not welcome without cash, the provisos stuck to the office board at immigration states this.

Like i said, you need only compare this to a similar situation in your own country . . . an invasion of people with different ideals, religion, manners etc . . . shouting at you in their language that you don't understand, dragging your young girls around like dogs on a leash . . . throwing money at you to keep you quiet . . . i actually think the Thais, in general, are very tolerant . . . but maybe tolerance is just suppression and an explosion is always around the corner. I'm not making an excuse for the people that take it out on foreigners, they should know better, should adhere to some personal ethic and get over the resentment . . . but they don't and that is why this happens.

So what to do? Christ knows, ride out the wave and try and keep out of bother.

been in thailand for yrs ,never had any real problems. i know the culture respect the traditions and dont shout my mouth off.

theres no smoke without fire.

stoneman u have the solution mate,thats the answer.cheers

i want to plant rubber on 50 rai, 30 rai of it is quite low and floods during the rice season in surin. is there a way round this,any ideas ?. my wife suggested topping up the soil on it maybe about 2ft and then making raised ridges on top of that and plant on this.i think this would be just to much expense to justify the returns maybe.she has a fish pond 80ft by40ft which has natural rising spring water and she suggested opening a few more holes and use the soil to top up on the low ground,still i think it wouldnt cover to much.she also suggested running concrete pipes accross the ground to allow the heavy run of water to escape straight through to other peoples ground. any ideas welcome.